1992 Inquiry Report of Missing Anthrax at Fort Detrick (2002 item)

[UTUSN]

Credit Jamastiene at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4456711 for this item. The original item IS from 2002 and regards information from 1992, but it's chock full of reminders that the 2001 attacks on Dems and media have not been solved --or, would that be, have been SQUELCHED.

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http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/anthraxmissingarmylab.html

Source: The Hartford Courant, January 20, 2002.

Anthrax Missing From Army Lab

By JACK DOLAN And DAVE ALTIMARI, Courant Staff Writers

Lab specimens of anthrax spores, Ebola virus and other pathogens disappeared from the Army's biological warfare research facility in the early 1990s, during a turbulent period of labor complaints and recriminations among rival scientists there, documents from an internal Army inquiry show.

The 1992 inquiry also found evidence that someone was secretly entering a lab late at night to conduct unauthorized research, apparently involving anthrax. A numerical counter on a piece of lab equipment had been rolled back to hide work done by the mystery researcher, who left the misspelled label "antrax" in the machine's electronic memory, according to the documents obtained by The Courant. ....

Assaad said he had believed the harassment was behind him until last October, until after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

He said that is when the FBI contacted him, saying someone had mailed an anonymous letter - a few days before the existence of anthrax-laced mail became known - naming Assaad as a potential bioterrorist. FBI agents decided the note was a hoax after interviewing Assaad.

But Assaad said he believes the note's timing makes the author a suspect in the anthrax attacks, and he is convinced that details of his work contained in the letter mean the author must be a former Fort Detrick colleague. ....

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[FogerRox]

1. Wooooah-- nice

[rooboy]

2. A lot of people have known the key suspect was Zack for years.

What I don't understand is why people aren't chasing after him like they did Hatfield.